Dearest Friend!
Heartiest thanks for your kind willingness to be of aid! — You may surely count on the fulfilling of my promise to pay back the 150 thalers which you have loaned me today, by Easter of next year at the latest.
— Is it not truly disgusting — to have need of MONEY? Why can't one do without it!
Once more, best thanks, until further notice in person!
Your
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 2